Yesterday was our first Valentine’s Day together as a married couple. We didn’t go all-out-crazy for the holiday, but we did celebrate with some small gifts, yummy cookies, and a lovely dinner out throughout the weekend. Today, I’ll share a recap of our celebration…mostly so that I can remember this first married Valentine’s Day in the [Continue Reading…]

On Saturday, I met two of my best Austin girlfriends in Waco for the day to get together and catch up! Waco is situated between Austin and Dallas, so it’s a great halfway point for us to meet up. In fact, Riley and I met in Waco for our first date! The most difficult part about [Continue Reading…]

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Create the Good. All opinions are 100% mine. I started a day camp when I was eight years old. I’m not kidding. When I was in fourth grade, my best friend Bella and I stayed up until the wee hours of the morning planning [Continue Reading…]

I’ve moved several times. From Maryland to North Carolina for college, from North Carolina to Austin, Texas after graduation, and most recently, from Austin to Denton, Texas after getting married. Each time has presented a unique range of emotions and set of challenges. The last move, from Austin to Denton, was easily the most difficult for [Continue Reading…]

It’s a crazy story how I ended up working as a camp counselor the summer after my sophomore year of college. You can read the full, detailed story here, but here’s the short version: I’d already committed to a summer job when I had a vivid dream that I was meant to be a camp counselor, [Continue Reading…]

A few years ago, on the fourth of July in 2013, I moved to Austin, Texas. I had received a job offer in the marketing department at a three-year-old tech startup and was eager to dive into my career. It didn’t matter that I was at the dead bottom of the corporate ladder; I was simply elated [Continue Reading…]

Riley turned the big 3-0 on Sunday! I wrote him a sappy and honest love letter (which I published here on Monday), threw him a Star Wars themed birthday party, and found a restaurant for a just-us celebration in downtown Baltimore. As I’ve said many times, my blog sometimes acts as an online scrapbook for [Continue Reading…]

Yesterday, you turned 30 years old. Three decades of life and I’ve known you for just half of one–been with you for only two years. How can that be? How can all this bursting love begin to fit into the past two years? Time is fast. Because last year on your birthday? You got down on [Continue Reading…]

Last Wednesday was my 24th birthday! And because I love to document life’s moments here on my blog, as a sort-of scrapbook, I’m going to share how we celebrated! On Wednesday morning, we set our alarms an hour earlier than we usually get up. We woke up, still sleepy, and got dressed. I walked outside and [Continue Reading…]

Today is my 24th birthday! Yay! This year of life has been incredible–an engagement, a move, a new job, a marriage–all packed into the past 365 days. Here are my 24 favorite memories from this year of my life, in no real order: Saying “Yes!” to “Will you marry me?” (post here) …and then gazing [Continue Reading…]

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